The Chambers Dictionary
Title | The Chambers Dictionary PDF eBook |
Author | Editors of Chambers |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1886 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | English language |
ISBN |
Combines authoritative definitions with the occasional humorous one.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Title | Chambers 20th Century Dictionary PDF eBook |
Author | E. M. Kirkpatrick |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1583 |
Release | 1985 |
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Chambers English Dictionary
Title | Chambers English Dictionary PDF eBook |
Author | C. M. Schwarz |
Publisher | Larousse Kingfisher Chambers |
Pages | 1792 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | English language |
ISBN | 9780550102515 |
Chembers 21 Century Dictionary
Title | Chembers 21 Century Dictionary PDF eBook |
Author | Allied |
Publisher | Allied Publishers |
Pages | 1668 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9788186062265 |
Chambers Slang Dictionary
Title | Chambers Slang Dictionary PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathon Green |
Publisher | Larousse Kingfisher Chambers |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780550105639 |
A scholarly reference to slang expressions from all parts of the English-speaking world includes coverage of twenty-first-century terms and lists explanations of word origins.
Chambers Biographical Dictionary
Title | Chambers Biographical Dictionary PDF eBook |
Author | Joan Bakewell |
Publisher | Chambers |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Biography |
ISBN | 9780550106933 |
Dictionaries of biography.
Cassell's Dictionary of Slang
Title | Cassell's Dictionary of Slang PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathon Green |
Publisher | Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. |
Pages | 1600 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780304366361 |
With its unparalleled coverage of English slang of all types (from 18th-century cant to contemporary gay slang), and its uncluttered editorial apparatus, Cassell's Dictionary of Slang was warmly received when its first edition appeared in 1998. 'Brilliant.' said Mark Lawson on BBC2's The Late Review; 'This is a terrific piece of work - learned, entertaining, funny, stimulating' said Jonathan Meades in The Evening Standard.But now the world's best single-volume dictionary of English slang is about to get even better. Jonathon Green has spent the last seven years on a vast project: to research in depth the English slang vocabulary and to hunt down and record written instances of the use of as many slang words as possible. This has entailed trawling through more than 4000 books - plus song lyrics, TV and movie scripts, and many newspapers and magazines - for relevant material. The research has thrown up some fascinating results